Will it rain in the Yunnan Tonghai earthquake area in the next three days?
According to the China Seismological Network, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred in Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province at 1:44 on August 13, 2018, Beijing time.
We learned from the Yunnan Provincial Meteorological Service Center that there will be showers in the earthquake area in the next three days. Meteorological monitoring data shows: at 03:00 on August 13, the temperature in Tonghai was 18.3°C, and the rainfall in the past 24 hours was 1.9 mm; the temperature in the four streets and villages was 16.3°C, and the rainfall in the past 24 hours was 0.2 mm.
Reminder: People in disaster areas should pay attention to weather changes, find safe places to take shelter from rain, and take precautions against heatstroke and disease. Disaster relief personnel are reminded that secondary disasters that may occur due to continuous rainfall will increase the difficulty of rescue. Please protect your own safety while rescuing.
Earthquakes, also known as ground motions and ground vibrations, are vibrations caused by the rapid release of energy in the earth's crust, during which seismic waves are generated. The collisions between plates on the earth cause dislocation and rupture at the edges and within the plates, which is the main cause of earthquakes.
The place where the earthquake begins is called the earthquake source, and the ground directly above the earthquake source is called the epicenter. The place where the ground vibrations of a destructive earthquake is strongest is called the epicenter, and the epicenter is often the area where the epicenter is located. Earthquakes often cause serious casualties, can cause fires, floods, toxic gas leaks, spread of bacteria and radioactive materials, and can also cause secondary disasters such as tsunamis, landslides, collapses, and ground fissures.
According to statistics, more than 5 million earthquakes occur on the earth every year, that is, tens of thousands of earthquakes occur every day. Most of them are too small or too far away for people to feel; there are about ten or twenty earthquakes that can really cause serious harm to humans; there are about one or two earthquakes that can cause particularly serious disasters. Earthquakes that people cannot feel can only be recorded with a seismograph; different types of seismometers can record earthquakes of different intensities and distances. Thousands of various seismic instruments are operating around the world to monitor earthquake movements day and night.
The current level of science and technology is still unable to predict the arrival of earthquakes, and earthquakes will also be unpredictable for a long time to come. The so-called examples of successful earthquake predictions are basically coincidences. Regarding earthquakes, what we should do more is to improve the seismic resistance level of buildings and prepare defenses, rather than predict earthquakes.